Topics / Parenting & family
Where people stand on parenting & family.
Screens, discipline, youth sports, family money — where parents and everyone with parents actually stand.
Choosing not to have kids needs no justification — and "you'll change your mind" isn't an argument.67%agree · 3It's fine to admit parenting is mostly not fun — loving the kid and loving the job are different things.33%agree · 3Gentle parenting is an experiment we're running on an entire generation.0%agree · 3Giving a 10-year-old a smartphone is closer to negligence than to normal.33%agree · 3Watching your parents grandparent explains your entire childhood.100%agree · 1Minivans are the correct car. Cool was never the point of a car with car seats.100%agree · 1Couples who never take a night away from the kids are making a mistake the kids eventually pay for.100%agree · 1Family group chats make it impossible to opt out of anything politely.100%agree · 1"Because I said so" is a legitimate answer, and every parent arrives there eventually.0%agree · 1Elf on the Shelf teaches kids to behave because they're watched, not because it's right.100%agree · 1Kids should walk to school alone at whatever age their parents did.100%agree · 1Letting kids quit an activity teaches decision-making, not weakness.100%agree · 1Baby names have gotten out of hand, and every parent thinks it's the other parents.100%agree · 1Kids don't owe their parents anything for being raised. The debt runs the other way.0%agree · 1The village it supposedly takes was never free — it ran on obligated women.100%agree · 1Moving away from family for a career gets romanticized right up until you need a babysitter.100%agree · 1Grandparents who babysit weekly earn opinion rights. Twice-a-year visitors don't.0%agree · 1Having kids to save a marriage is the most expensive mistake a couple can make.100%agree · 1One-and-done families are complete families — siblings are a choice, not a requirement.100%agree · 1Parents who say "we don't do sleepovers" are reading the data, not being paranoid.100%agree · 1A messy house with played-with kids beats a clean one with scheduled ones.100%agree · 1Today's parents aren't more exhausted than earlier generations were.100%agree · 1Dads today get applause for baseline parenting that moms have always just done.100%agree · 1Having a favorite child is normal. Admitting it is the only taboo.0%agree · 1The hardest part of modern parenting is other parents.100%agree · 1Kids' menus trained a generation to eat beige.0%agree · 1A child-free wedding is a reasonable ask, not an insult to your family.100%agree · 1A crying baby on a plane is weather. It happens to everyone, and blame helps nobody.100%agree · 1Kids belong in restaurants — it's the only place they learn how to be in restaurants.100%agree · 1Participation trophies were never the problem — adults' obsession with them was.100%agree · 1Youth sports stopped being about the kids somewhere around the second travel team.100%agree · 1The problem isn't strict parents or soft parents. It's inconsistent ones.100%agree · 1Negotiating with a toddler teaches the toddler that you negotiate.100%agree · 1A little boredom is the best thing you can give a kid.100%agree · 1Spanking is wrong in every case — there's no version that's discipline instead of failure.100%agree · 1Kids need to hear "no" as a complete sentence more than they need explanations.0%agree · 1Phones should be banned in schools bell to bell — no pocket exceptions.0%agree · 1The iPad didn't ruin family dinner. Dinner was already like that.100%agree · 1Screen-time panic is this generation's "TV rots your brain" — mostly recycled fear.100%agree · 1Posting your kids all over social media is a choice they never got to make.100%agree · 1